The intention of this post is to initiate a conversation about the treatment of race in games. Countless resources have been written about the treatment of race in the media, however few exist that work solely towards deconstructing race in games. I wanted to gather some of these resources to start a conversation about racist…

Appreciating the Women in Games Killzone is a 2004 game developed by Guerrilla Games. As a whole, the plot is fairly predictable and the villain is extremely campy. However, the character interactions are well crafted and hilarious. One of my favourite quotes is from this game. The player picks up new playable characters as they…

AVAST! Assassin’s Creed Spoilers abound me hearties. So this happened. And a small part of me died a little on the inside. Allow me to explain. The Assassin’s Creed games have always been pretty cool. They mix two of my favorite things: History and creatively maiming my enemies. They’ve also usually managed to tell…

****THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS**** Let me start this post by saying, Fire Emblem Awakening is one of the best RPGs games I have ever played. Ever. If you have never played a Fire Emblem game then stop what you are doing and go do that. Right now. Seriously. This post is not intended to be…

Hey readers! This post reflects my opinion only. 🙂 Ethics and Computing Science seems to be desperately lacking a feminist perspective. In taking a 300 level computing course on computers and society, I noticed immediately that the majority of discussions in the field of ethics explored the issue from a male euro-centric perspective. The discussions…

**I would like to issue a trigger warning, this post contains discussion of violence and sexual assault.** Techland, producers of Dead Island recently released a special “Zombie Bait” edition of the game that includes a severed female torso statuette. In the original press release Paul Nicholls, Sales & Marketing Director, Deep Silver, said: “Dead Island Riptide…